Description

This online speech pathology CEU course is offered for 0.3 ASHA CEUs.

 

Course Format: Text - including diagrams, picture references, & audio references (which can be downloaded as a wav file if unable to play from the website).

 

This interactive e-course is intended for all educators—speech-language pathologists, teachers, reading specialists and special educators—who want to improve their understanding of phonological awareness and their abilities to effectively teach phonological awareness.

Phonological awareness is an important predictor for early reading decoding and has a causal relationship with the acquisition of word decoding skills. The National Reading Panel Report (2000) identified phonological awareness as a critical area of early reading instruction and, thus, phonological awareness activities are now common in early reading curricula. Implementing successful phonological awareness instruction and intervention requires that all educators—speech-language pathologists, teachers, reading specialists and special educators—have a clear understanding of phonological awareness and its relation to reading. However, many educators have had insufficient training in phonological awareness.

This e-course provides an overview of phonological awareness. Phonological awareness, phonemic awareness and phonics are defined and differentiated. Participants are engaged in several interactive practice exercises that tap into and enhance their own phonological awareness and clarify the links between speech sounds and print. The relation between phonological awareness and early reading is summarized. The development of phonological awareness in young children is described so as to illustrate an instructional sequence and grade-appropriate phonological awareness benchmarks for preschool and early school-age children.

 

NOTE #1: This e-course utilizes audio; therefore a computer with speakers is required for enrollment.

NOTE #2: The author discloses that she has a financial interest in the "Intensive Phonological Awareness Program," which is referenced in this e-course.

 

Please note:  This eCourse is set up to be flexible to accomodate all schedules.  You do not have to complete this program in one sitting.  You can access the course materials as many times as you need to in order to complete all the sections. 

Course Objectives

At e-course conclusion, participants will be able to:

1. Define phonological awareness.
2. Differentiate phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, and phonics.
3. Describe a developmental sequence of simple to complex phonological awareness tasks.
4. Identify the relation between phonological awareness and reading.

 

A score of 80% or better must be received on the post-test in order to
receive a certificate of completion.

Author Profile

C. Melanie Schuele, PhD, CCC-SLP, is an ASHA fellow and an assistant professor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt University. She has focused her research and clinical efforts on understanding and improving the language and literacy skills of children with language impairments. Dr. Schuele currently has two United Stated Department of Education Training Grants that focus on developing expertise in literacy assessment and interventions for speech-language pathology masters and doctoral students. From 2001-2006 she collaborated with the West Virginia Department of Education in a statewide initiative to implement tiered phonological awareness instruction and intervention. She recently completed a term as associate editor for Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. 

Location & Lodging

 

Intended Audience

• Teach/Educ
• SLP

Accreditation

This program is offered for .3 CEUs (Intermediate level; Professional area).

 

Per our longstanding procedures with ASHA, we submit CEU information to ASHA quarterly, so your CEUs will be reflected as completed on the last day of that quarter.  For instance, if you complete a course on December 7th, 2011, it will be reported to ASHA in January 2012, and it will be reflected in your ASHA account as completed on December 31st, 2011.  However, for submitting to your state board or for your own records, you will receive a certificate of completion with the actual completion date.